To paint a hardwood floor start by sanding the wood to remove any preexisting layers of varnish or enamel.
How to paint hardwood floors gray.
Blue and white plaid painted floors.
Paint the floor with a roller or a paint pad on the end of a 4 foot extension pole.
If you use a roller you can load it in a paint tray the same way you would if you were painting walls.
And not even how to paint floors the super professional way.
See how to paint broad bands on your porch floor.
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When using a pad you may find it more efficient to pour the paint on the floor and drag the pad through it from one side of the room to the other.
The floor is painted platinum gray by benjamin moore.
It depends on the room and the layout.
How to paint wood floors without sanding aka the lazy way.
Higher end homeowners in westchester keep requesting gray hardwood floors.
Finding pre finished gray hardwood is easy but how about if you already have oak hardwood floors in your westchester home.
The floors are inherently old and funky.
Grey hardwood floors vary in many different ways depending on the species of wood the intensity of the stain and the variation of the coloring.
It s an up and coming trend.
Hardwood floor medallion photo by deborah whitlaw llewellyn.
If i paint the floors in one room do i have to paint all of the floors.
I adore william mclure s white painted hardwood floors.
But williams s homes tend to be in old rustic converted factories.
To get the weathered look of painted hardwood floors in the attic homeowners natalie and tim hamm painted inexpensive subflooring white.
A painted framed medallion can enhance the beauty of your hardwood and ease the transition where two types of flooring meet.
The trick is to add color to a floor without covering up the beautiful wood.
So paint is a perfect solution.
Painting a hardwood floor is a fairly straightforward process with a lot of room for creativity in terms of the texture and finish of your floor.
A pretty soft gray paint on breakfast nook floors grounds white furnishings and walls.
Because this post is about how to paint wood floors.